In Youth I Have Known One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCEE A FEFGFGHH A AIJIAIKK L KMKMKMNN| I | A |
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| In youth I have known one with whom the Earth | B |
| In secret communing held as he with it | C |
| In daylight and in beauty from his birth | B |
| Whose fervid flickering torch of life was lit | C |
| From the sun and stars whence he had drawn forth | D |
| A passionate light such for his spirit was fit | C |
| And yet that spirit knew not in the hour | E |
| Of its own fervor what had o'er it power | E |
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| II | A |
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| Perhaps it may be that my mind is wrought | F |
| To a ferver by the moonbeam that hangs o'er | E |
| But I will half believe that wild light fraught | F |
| With more of sovereignty than ancient lore | G |
| Hath ever told or is it of a thought | F |
| The unembodied essence and no more | G |
| That with a quickening spell doth o'er us pass | H |
| As dew of the night time o'er the summer grass | H |
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| III | A |
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| Doth o'er us pass when as th' expanding eye | A |
| To the loved object so the tear to the lid | I |
| Will start which lately slept in apathy | J |
| And yet it need not be that object hid | I |
| From us in life but common which doth lie | A |
| Each hour before us but then only bid | I |
| With a strange sound as of a harp string broken | K |
| T' awake us 'Tis a symbol and a token | K |
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| IV | L |
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| Of what in other worlds shall be and given | K |
| In beauty by our God to those alone | M |
| Who otherwise would fall from life and Heaven | K |
| Drawn by their heart's passion and that tone | M |
| That high tone of the spirit which hath striven | K |
| Though not with Faith with godliness whose throne | M |
| With desperate energy 't hath beaten down | N |
| Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown | N |
Edgar Allan Poe
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